[Virtualacorn-list] Triple or quadruple click on Windows7

[Jeremy Nicoll - ml virtualacorn]

Paul Sprangers <p.sprangers at sprie.nl> wrote:

> Op 17-6-2011 22:06, Jeremy Nicoll - ml virtualacorn schreef:
> > If you navigate to the VRPC program, then make a fresh shortcut to it
> > (which I presume is possible if it's like XP - right-click the program
> > and choose Create shortcut, or Send To desktop as a shortcut), does the
> > new shortcut work?

> No, it doesn't. Even when running directly from the VirtualAcorn map, it 
> needs 4 clicks before it will start.

What do you mean by "VirtualAcorn map"?

What happens if you navigate in explorer to the folder containing the VA
program, then right-click it and choose "Run As..." (or whatever W7 offers)?



I put some other ideas in a reply to someone else's post.



I've also just googled for: w7 quadruple click

One hit: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/984859 seems similar, though
it describes someone for whom every app has the problem.  They do however
report process manager showing something starting after the first pair of
clicks. [That same page has a link to another page describing how one might
fix the problem but I wouldn't be in a hurry to try to find a W7 equivalent
fix, because it seems to me that it would affect ALL .exe file processing
whereas your problem is just one .exe.]


Another hit mentions quadruple clicks, and someone else's reply suggests
that this might be a UAC (user access control?) thing.  But if this were
your problem I'd have expected just a double-click (and wait) to produce
some sort of permissions dialog.


I wonder also if uninstalling & reinstalling VA might help.  Possibly one of
the DLLs that VA uses has lots its proper registration - though if that were
so I don't see why VA would ever start.
 
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